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Re: [OM] The Digital Orgy

Subject: Re: [OM] The Digital Orgy
From: "Ken Norton" <image66@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 09:40:15 -0500
Gary,

Glad to see that the tutu still fits.

I disagree to a minor extent regarding manufacturer led changes vs consumer
led changes.  It's been the responsibility of the manufacturer to "create"
the demand through marketing, marketing and marketing.  HDTV hasn't been in
demand because it hasn't been marketed properly.  Remember back to the
Olympics that were held in LA?  Who and what was advertised extremely
heavily?  That's right IBM and the PC.  They created a market with those
crazy Charlie Chaplain and Allen Alda commercials.  If it wasn't for IBM's
highly successful advertising we all would be mousing away on Macs right
now.

You can't leglislate demand.  We tried here in the US several years ago with
HDTV development (woe is us, the Japanese are so far ahead of us in
developing HDTV....),   Pres. Clinton (take his Viagra away, please) tried
several years ago to push "The Information Highway!"  Huh?  Government need
not try to build infrastructure such as the internet.  Private industry has
done a fine job of creating and meeting the demand.

Supply or demand side economics.  That's what we are discussing here.  On
one extreme you have the Reaganomics which is purely Supply side:  Kodak
will supply a digital solution and stop production of film.  Consumers will
adapt out of necessity.  A middle approach is that Kodak will supply digital
solutions along with Film and create the demand side through marketing.  The
Clintonomics side is that Government has to leglislate the change and force
Kodak to make the digital products, cease production of the "environmentally
unsound chemical based imaging" and take away their income from digital by
making them "pay" for all the years of standing in the way of digital
development by building better films."

Ahem, I'll get off my soapbox now.  Sorry to everybody outside of the USA,
this is a sore topic among many here that have been directly affected by the
economic mismanagement of our fair leaders.

Ah!  If we could get OM's listed as endangered species!  The government will
pay us to keep them in use!  To bad Olympus isn't an American company
located in a farmer's field in California.

Ken N.


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